“Turbo,” the DreamWorks Animation film about a snail that opened yesterday, may get squished at the box office. The movie, which cost about $135 million to produce, is forecast to ...

Even within the world of animated-film logic, it’s a bit of a stretch that a snail — even one with superpowers gained during a trip through a car’s engine — could compete ...

He's then transformed into the World's Fastest Snail, sliming a literal blue streak down L.A. streets and up L.A. walls. A Latino taco maker (Michael Pena) enters Turbo in his rundown strip mall's ...

In DreamWorks Animation’s winsome toon “Turbo,” a junior speed maven dreams of competing in the Indianapolis 500. There’s just one small problem: He’s a snail.

Darned if he isn’t transformed into the world’s fastest snail. Darned if a taco-maker (Michael Pena) doesn’t enter Turbo in his run-down strip mall’s nightly snail races.

Turbo isn't reinventing any wheels, but the snail world is fleshed out with enough detail to make its essentially derivative premise feel fresh. As half term crowd-pleasers go, this doesn't put a ...

Now the Valley — with its flat vistas, low-slung ranch homes and even its cluttered strip malls — is getting animated in “Turbo,” a movie about a garden snail who dreams of racing in the ...

In delivering a film about a garden snail that dreams of winning the Indy 500, it’s as if the makers of Turbo had been pressed to come up with the most extreme underdog tale they could think of ...

There are underdogs. And there are underdogs. Then there is “Turbo,” a garden snail who dreams of winning the Indy 500. Honestly, they pretty much had me at “racing snails.” The idea for ...